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Office Dogs Improve Law Firm Morale

Attorney at Work

Catch up on Ruth Carter’s posts here. Have you met my Lucy Jane? She is a basset hound mix that I began fostering in late April, and we finalized her adoption a few weeks later. She’s come to the office every day since she came into my life, and the entire office is better for it. Insisting on a Dog-Friendly Office. When my current firm, Venjuris, invited me to join them, I said, “Great!

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Clearbrief, Product that Strengthens Legal Writing, Raises $3.5M Seed Round

LawSites

I wrote last March about Clearbrief , a first-of-its-kind product designed to strengthen your legal writing, and that was backed by some big-name early investors, including Mark Britton , the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner , legal writing expert and editor of Black’s Law Dictionary; and Bill Neukom , longtime Microsoft general counsel.

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2021 Update to Choosing Law Librarianship: Thoughts for People Contemplating a Career Move

LLRX

AALL Gallagher Award recipient Mary Whisner , Public Services Librarian, University of Washington, Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, has updated her 2008 guide about choosing a career in law librarianship. With more than 30 years of experience in the profession, Whisner discusses important topics to review when considering a career in our profession.

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The Impact of Technology on Critical Legal Thinking With Michael Zuckerman (Northwestern Law School)

Technically Legal

“Whatever benefits advanced legal technology may bring to lawyers, I am concerned about this sort of technology seeping into the legal writing classroom,” writes Northwestern University Legal Writing Professor Michael Zuckerman in an article he penned for the ABA Journal, Law Professor Makes Case Against Automating Legal Writing in Law School. However, Professor Zuckerman is not anti-legal tech.

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Retirement: A Time for Jubilación

Attorney at Work

When you approach retirement as a lifelong adventure, it can be a constant source of rejoicing. Here’s how design thinking gets you there. Retirement can be celebrated as an event or a status. As an event, retirement is pretty quick and easy. The type of event depends on the nature of your position, company and tenure. It might be a potluck lunch where co-workers praise your years of service and give you a card signed by everyone in the office.

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LawNext: PacerPro Founder and CEO Gavin McGrane On Process Automation and Court Data

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Gavin McGrane was a litigation attorney in San Francisco when he saw an opportunity to improve how legal professionals interface with the federal courts electronic records system, PACER, and to enable them to better tap into the data and knowledge contained within that system. . In 2012, he founded PacerPro , originally focusing on providing an enhanced interface to the PACER system, but, in the years since, developing it beyond that, into a system that also enables law firms to automate the pro

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Reopening the Books

LLRX

Attorney, editor and legal publisher Robert McKay brings good news about Bearings Legal Resources, a new, independent legal publishing company. Its mission is to provide lawyers with extraordinary products, build long-lasting relationships with the legal community served, obsess over personal customer service and enhance understanding of legal issues through thoughtful information design and a relentless commitment to accuracy, clarity and currency.

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Workspace: 8 Things Every Lawyer Needs to Get the Work Done

Attorney at Work

Now is the time to reimagine how — and where — you do what you do. Here are recommendations for your essential office setup. Now is the time to reimagine how — and where — you do what you do. The only person limiting what that is … is you. That said, there are a few hard rules on what you need to make an office work. So, as someone who has worked virtually for over two decades and has been helping lawyers do and work better my entire career, here are my tips on five of those basics, along with a

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Legal Analytics Platform Lex Machina Can Now ‘Fetch’ State Court Documents for Customers

LawSites

The legal analytics platform Lex Machina has introduced a “fetch” functionality that allows users to request and retrieve specific documents from state court dockets. The functionality is designed to enable users to dig into the details of analytics research they perform on Lex Machina, obtaining specific motions, orders or other documents that can provide details beyond what is revealed through docket entries.

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Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources 2021

LLRX

Marcus Zillman's new guide provides a wealth of information to enhance your efforts in conducting expert research on a wide range of subject matters. The guide is also another reminder that Google should not be your go-to subject search engine by demonstrating how choosing to use reliable topic specific sources can deliver greater scope, breath and depth of information for your analysis and reporting.

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Excel - VLOOKUP

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Excel - VLOOKUP: When and how to use it Learn how to use the VLOOKUP function to find data in a large spreadsheet, and on other worksheets in a large workbook. These videos explain each of the VLOOKUP arguments, and mistakes to avoid.

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Vintage Fountain Pens: 5 Brands You Should Buy Now

Attorney at Work

Put some vintage fountain pens on your desk. Because lawyers write for a living. From briefs to battle plans, you’re always pounding a keyboard or jotting down notes. And while not much can be done about the haptic aesthetics of a computer keyboard, your jotting down can be leveled up with the stroke of a vintage fountain pen. This shortlist of pens is in no way exhaustive.

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Important Note re the Legaltech Week Journalists’ Roundtable: Reregistration Required

LawSites

For all of you loyal attendees of the Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, your previous registration will no longer work. To attend today’s program, you will need to re-register. It only takes a moment and you can do so here: [link]. If you have not previously attended, please join us. Every Friday at 3 E.T., our live panel of journalists and bloggers review the top stories of the week in legal tech and legal innovation.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 28, 2021

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Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness.

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Digital Transformation for Compass Health Brands [DOWNLOAD CASE STUDY]

Accellis Technology Group

Learn how we onboarded 200+ end users and 10 sites across two countries, migrating 10 servers & 20TB of data to Azure in under < 45 days, while getting Microsoft to pay for 40% of it. “At the snap of a finger, our entire workforce had to be remote. This was never a requirement before, but Accellis pulled it off.” -Andrew Lesak, Director of Technical Services Read Case Study (No Email Required) Get strategic.

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Has Your Boss Fallen Out of Love With You? 9 Signs

Attorney at Work

Has the senior partner stopped introducing you to new clients? Have you been assigned a “special project” or more work than you can handle? Falling out of favor is a tough blow to the ego, but it doesn’t have to ruin your career. Does this sound familiar? You land your dream job at a firm that offers a clear path for advancement, with all the values you’ve ever sought in an employer, and a salary that far surpasses expectations.

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Onit Acquires Bodhala to Provide Legal Departments with ‘Actionable Intelligence’ on Legal Spend

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Marking its third acquisition in the last year and its fourth since 2019, Onit , the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired Bodhala , a New York company whose SaaS platform provides in-house legal departments with AI-powered legal spend analytics, benchmarking and market intelligence. .

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LLRX July – August 2021 Issue

LLRX

Articles and Columns for July / August 2021 2021 Update to Choosing Law Librarianship: Thoughts for People Contemplating a Career Move – AALL Gallagher Award recipient Mary Whisner, Public Services Librarian, University of Washington, Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, has updated her 2008 guide about choosing a career in law librarianship. With more than 30.

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Excel - VLOOKUP

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Excel - VLOOKUP: When and how to use it Learn how to use the VLOOKUP function to find data in a large spreadsheet, and on other worksheets in a large workbook. These videos explain each of the VLOOKUP arguments, and mistakes to avoid.

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5 Small Changes That Can Improve Your Law Firm’s Cash Flow

Attorney at Work

No matter the size of your law firm, maintaining a positive cash flow is essential. If you aren’t keeping a proper eye on your firm’s bottom line, it simply cannot survive. You can actually do a lot to boost your bottom line and keep your cash flow healthy and steady. The most successful law firms use a variety of best practices to manage their finances effectively, many of which can be implemented relatively quickly.

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Ep 137: PacerPro Founder and CEO Gavin McGrane

LawNext podcast

Gavin McGrane was a litigation attorney in San Francisco when he saw an opportunity to improve how legal professionals interface with the federal courts electronic records system, PACER, and to enable them to better tap into the data and knowledge contained within that system. In 2012, he founded PacerPro , originally focusing on providing an enhanced interface to the PACER system, but, in the years since, developing it beyond that, into a system that also enables law firms to automate the proc

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Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite

LLRX

Cason Schmit , Brian N. Larson and Hye-Chung Kum are faculty at the school of public health and the law school at Texas A&M University with expertise in health information regulation, data science and online contracts. U.S. data protection laws often widely permit using data for profit but are more restrictive of socially beneficial uses. They wanted to ask a simple question: Do U.S. privacy laws actually protect data in the ways that Americans want?

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8 Legal Practice Areas Growing in 2021 and Beyond

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8 Legal Practice Areas Growing in 2021 and Beyond Corporate clients have few sources of refuge. Facing a tsunami of new matters, their need well exceeds their capacity to deliver — despite hiring new, experienced in-house attorneys. This demand is driving substantial growth for outside counsel. The demand is broad and deep.

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8 Legal Practice Areas Growing in 2021 and Beyond

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8 Legal Practice Areas Growing in 2021 and Beyond Corporate clients have few sources of refuge. Facing a tsunami of new matters, their need well exceeds their capacity to deliver — despite hiring new, experienced in-house attorneys. This demand is driving substantial growth for outside counsel. The demand is broad and deep.

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Password Protect Workbooks & Worksheets

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Password protect workbooks and worksheets Your Excel workbook or worksheets contain sensitive strategic data, so you want to require others to enter a password to open them. Or you can share the data freely with anyone without requiring a password, but require a password to make changes. Take this short course to find out more.

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Password Protect Workbooks & Worksheets

NSLT

Password protect workbooks and worksheets Your Excel workbook or worksheets contain sensitive strategic data, so you want to require others to enter a password to open them. Or you can share the data freely with anyone without requiring a password, but require a password to make changes. Take this short course to find out more.

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